60 ÅNGERMANLAND. 



Even if a vessel be filled with it and set by 

 in the cellar, as is usually practised for 

 winter provision, care must be taken that 

 not the least drop may run out, otherwise 

 the whole would escape, so great is the 

 cohesion of its particles. 



This prepared milk is esteemed a great 

 dainty by the country people. They con- 

 sider it as very cooling and refreshing. 

 Sometimes it is eaten along with fresh milk. 

 In taking it from the dish, it cannot be 

 poured out, as it all runs back again if not 

 cut with a knife, or, as is more usual, 

 parted by holding the finger against the 

 edge of the spoon. 



Intermittent fevers would not be so rare 

 here as they are, if they could be produced 

 by acid diet, for then this food must in- 

 fallibly occasion them. 



A small quantity of this preparation is 

 sometimes put into the barley cakes, in or- 

 der to give them tenacity. 



I had here abundant opportunities of 

 examining a fish, not every where to be 



